Wired News: Wi-Fi as a Health Hazard

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I won't even dignify this further.

 

 

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72265-0.html?tw=rss.technology

 

 

Here's a quote from the leader of a group of concerned citizens. Even

he seems skeptical of what's really going on here. I used to have

what I thought was severe chemical sensitivity and food allergies.

Turned out I was unhappy. I changed my career and all my symptoms

disappeared within weeks.

 

Graham Philips of Powerwatch, which seeks to highlight the alleged

dangers of EMF, said no peer-reviewed research demonstrates dangers

specific to Wi-Fi. That said, he claimed that the vast majority of

studies into EMF indicate a negative health impact, and that a

precautionary approach should be adopted.

" What isn't yet agreed upon is whether or not it is attributable to

the electrical devices being accused of being the problem, " he said,

" or whether it is psychological. "

 

 

[Guest guest]

, < wrote:

>

> Here's a quote from the leader of a group of concerned citizens. Even

> he seems skeptical of what's really going on here. I used to have

> what I thought was severe chemical sensitivity and food allergies.

> Turned out I was unhappy. I changed my career and all my symptoms

> disappeared within weeks...

 

Ug - the power just went off and I had a good post and lost it all...

well, I'll just summarize here.

 

I had that post earlier where I mentioned a certain teacher said that

patients lie (the nice version). My story was about a patient of mine

with 'mold' allergies (which the doctor could not confirm, but a

muscle test by the chiropractor did). Main complaint of stuffy nose,

itching red eyes, sticky discharge, stuffy head, and feeling really

aggravated about this problem (on hindsight, more so than most people

would be). I first believe the patient and treated as airborne

allergies and she did ok, but not as well as I would have expected.

Long story short, of treatment here and there, is that this patient

only got the symptoms when she went into work (sits holed up in her

house teaching on-line courses and doing meditation) for meetings with

a boss she hated (I later learned), at which point these symptoms

would flare up because of the 'mold in that nasty old building' (and

had environmental services there many times to inspect for mold as

well). She said she felt great and was a happy person etc etc, except

for this problem. So, I switched over to treat as Liv / GB Fire, at

which point she starting doing much better. I tried explaining to her

where Liver Fire came through, but she would always twist it round to

'oh, it's liver cleansing'. I tried to tell her it wasn't being

caused by the mold - but she got very defensive about giving up her

mold crutches. To be fair, maybe the mold (if present) could

aggravate the problem, but I don't think the mold was being treated

fairly. So, after all this time, as she's walking out the door this

week, she tells me about how she spent so many years being angry at

her dad and then many years being angry at her ex-husband. And just 2

months ago she said that she felt fine (actually, she said she felt

nothing) when she had to spend a couple days with her ex at her

daughter's wedding (big red flag blazing there).

 

Point of all this? I guess it's like the blues, listen to the notes

played and, more importantly, not played. There's a lot of scapegoats

out there for people who won't just get out and exercise or whatever

to get their Qi moving.

 

Geoff

[Guest guest]

On 12/16/06, G Hudson <crudo20 wrote:

>

> Point of all this? I guess it's like the blues, listen to the notes

> played and, more importantly, not played. There's a lot of scapegoats

> out there for people who won't just get out and exercise or whatever

> to get their Qi moving.

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or take responsibility for their internal demons, to put it into TCM terms.

 

I think that when we see any patient who is depressed (or angry, or whatever

strong emotion) because of their physical complaints, we would be wise to

turn that around and consider that the chief complaint is secondary to their

depression or emotions.

 

This is becoming more and more clear to me.

 

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.